After two years removed from the Grammy-winning Alligator Bites Never Heal (outside of “Anxiety” and “Girl, Get Up”), she announced her return to hip-hop on Instagram, describing herself as the Swamp ...
On the subject of lineages, ALA.NI’s great-uncle Leslie Hutchinson emigrated to London from Grenada and became a cabaret star there in between the world wars. She herself was born in West London to ...
Welcome to the Soulpolitan weekly feature, where we highlight the R&B singles worth your time. We’re going with a little R&B all the way through the picks this week: JID gets into an elaborate bit ...
* = Music not released on streaming platforms. Remember that we don’t always get everything right, as many releases and announcements come through at the last minute.
* = Music not released on streaming platforms. Remember that we don’t always get everything right, as many releases and announcements come through at the last minute.
The songs (and the idea for Made In Chicago) grew out of a picture in her mind of herself in a leather coat facing Lake Michigan with the Chicago skyline over her shoulder, “at the intersection of ...
It’s Thursday night, and the rappers are gathering in a health-food cafe in South Central, getting ready for the open mic. Afterward, some of them will go home and try to transcribe it all: Myka 9’s ...
In 1976, Melvin Lindsey, a Howard Student, took over WHUR’s late shift as a fill-in and just kept playing slow love songs to DC’s nocturnal listeners. Cathy Hughes, who ran the station, named the show ...
Raised in an Igbo home in southwest Houston, Tobe Nwigwe prays over his pistol, his pockets, and his marriage in one voice, ...
Under terms of service that claim a person’s data, debts, and bloodline, Rhys Langston writes his family back into his own ...
Fifty years after the quiet storm sold the bedroom as shelter, Johnny Venus sings that shelter beautifully and then confesses ...
As a hyperpop concept album, RYL0 sets the scripting rituals of manifestation culture to music and follows them to the ...